During a period of anger, my husband said the triple talaq. As a revert, I didn't understand the consequence of what he was saying and I've had to Google this. Is it really true that I'm now divorced with no hope of reconciliation?

I was drawn to the beauty of Islam by it's fairness, reading book after book on how fair Islam is to women and how we we are given more rights than are given in society and the Catholic faith I came from. Please can someone clarify this for me and offer some explanation on how this protects women. This has really knocked my faith.

Talaq al-bidah (innovation conflicting with the Sunnah) is that he divorce her with three repudiations pronounced in a single
statement or three repudiations in a single period of purity. If he
does this, the divorce takes effect, but he has sinned. Al-Shafi`i
(God bless him) said that each form of divorce is mubah (permissible)
as it is a legally valid act so that it leads to its legal effects.

[my translation] Our Ulema say: The Imams of Fatwah are agreed on the matter that
giving three divorces in one statement makes them binding and this is
the saying of the majority of the Salaf. And Tawus and some of the Ahl-e-Zahir
said that giving three together enforces one divorce.

However, if one delivers three divorces at once by saying an
expression such as: "You are divorced thrice", without repeating the
expression (I divorce you), then the Muslim Scholars differed in this
case. Imams Abu Haneefah, Malik, Shafi’i, Ahmad and the majority of
the Muslim Scholars consider this kind of divorce as divorcing three
times ...

However, Imam Tawoos, Ibn Taymiyah and other contemporary Scholars
consider it as only one divorce.

Regarding the state of anger, it does not effect the divorce unless the anger was of such an extreme nature that it reached lunacy, see Radd al Muhtar, and the approximate translation here, again this is something you should elaborate to a Mufti and he will guide you further.

first 2 quotations do not show clearly whether triple talaq at once is counted as 1 talaq or as 3 talaqs. 3rd quotation is of maliki scholar, so it is not enough. 4rd quote is from a modern website's own text, and there is no prooflinks in it, and even authors of the text is not shown!
– qdinarJun 22 '17 at 7:45

Unfortunately in Hanafi three talaaqs does fall whether said in jest or anger. It is the most disliked form of talaaq and is to be used only in extreme circumstances.
It is a fair ruling meant to make both parties value the seriousness of nikaah and that is it not to be taken lightly as would be the case if there was continuous talaaq and nikaah with no repercussions.
I am so sorry for you.
When Allah takes you out of something, it is to replace you with better-that is faith.

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